Regional & Area Planning

The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is the first comprehensive handbook with a unique focus on planning education. Comparing...

When manufacturers and retailers vacate traditional locations, they leave holes in a citys fabric that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. ...

In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposalto redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtownCalgary. In an eff...

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through...

By 2025, China will have built fifteen new supercities each with 25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 Eco-cities' as well: clean, green...

After a decade of steady investment and construction, Chinese railways have evolved into an era of high-speed. This book has two objectives. The fi...

This volume compiles contributions from international scholars on the social impacts of urban mobility and discussions on concepts and methods to e...

This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the...

The requirement for sustainable transport in urban areas has become more onerous in the past decade due to a number of negative externalities which...

This book will bring a state of the art overview of the research done in sustainable logistics. It will be structured along the four A's of sustain...

The aim of this book is to understand the causes and consequences of new scales and forms of territorial restructuring in a steadily globalizing wo...

The United Nations Brundtland Report defines sustainable development as one that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of...

The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World...

Travel by car invariably involves the use of a car parking space at the start and end of the journey, the provision of which impacts on travel dema...

This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colo...

With 70% of the worlds population expected to live in urban environments by 2050, cities are poised to become the most significant spaces to shape ...

The ten essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. These c...

How does the state separate music from noise? How can such a filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a m...

Condoland casts CityPlace a massive residential development of more than thirty condominium towers just outside Torontos downtown core as a micro...

Effective urban governance is essential in responding to the challenges of inequality, migration, public health, housing, security, and climate cha...

In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of th...

Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-ri...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Over half the worlds population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builder...

Over half the worlds population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builder...

This book showcases the different ways in which contemporary forms of data analysis are being used in urban planning and management. It highlights ...

This book showcases the different ways in which contemporary forms of data analysis are being used in urban planning and management. It highlights ...

This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates as develo...

He was editor of GIM International until December 2000 and is author of over 500 publications in the fields of photogrammetry, remote sensing, comp...

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how...

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written...

Visual pollution is an emerging, multi-dimensional, subjective, and under studied area of manmade environments that has recently received researche...

This report looks at the political economy of net zero policy, from common challenges to the development of strategies to overcome them. It shows h...

This study adopts a spatial lens to shed light on weaknesses in competitiveness that have left Latin America unprepared to fully realize the potent...

Making Places for People explores 12 social questions crucial to environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspe...

This book provides an overview of the geopolitical context and climate change risk profile of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.Mappin...

EcoResponsive Environments integrates our current knowledge of designing for human needs, with a deeper understanding of natural systems. The book ...

Glass and Glazing looks at the conservation of one of the most important building materials, and its use in windows, roofing and walling. It consid...

Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes ...

Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city, and the goal of this book is to examine the various aspects of re...

Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge...

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional ...

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography captures the changes in the nature and outcomes of urbanisation processes for people, as well as t...